Specific guidelines for what students may want their research to include. e.g.: time period inventor lived in, life background, education, what society was like, opportunities, circumstances of inventors and their inventions, needs.
Platform for collecting research.
Research guidelines/requirements: websites, books, articles, etc.
Collaborative/Cooperative Group roles
Primary Driving/Throughline Concept: Why did humans use the resources in their environment to help them evolve? Why are some countries technologically advanced and some countries are not?
What are the most impactful-improtant-critical inventions that helped humans to evolve into what and where we are today?
Starting with the end in mind - what skills and strategies do we want the students to acquire; understand; learn; practice at the end of this "Project/Mini-Inquiry"?
Use a common,book, article, and website to begin practicing the non-fiction reading strategies of: reading with a question in mind, interrogating texts, code main idea and supporting details with codes or margin notes. Read for information.
Take the information and begin to summarize and paraphrase it into their own conceptual framework.
Provide students with an actual template/framework for breaking down their topic of research into specific information to find and include.
What was the invention? Create a "time-line" of how the invention has changed and evolved from when it was first invented to today.
What do you foresee it's future role in the future?
Does this have a positive impact on the footprint of the earth or not? Why? Why not?
When was it invented?
Who invented it? Who was this person? Born? Lived? Schooling? Interests?
What was the inventors motivation for inventing it?
What was the historical time period of the invention?
What impact did the invention have on society "back then" and what impact does it have on society now?
Example: Refrigeration} ice} unit or box with ice blocks} early refrigeration system} manufacturing of early refrigeration units} How were these powered? Was electricity required? What was required before electricity was invented? What came first - electricity or the refrigeration unit?
The benefits of have all of the students participate in researching the same topic is that they have a model, guide, template for how to move on to the next phase of each group selecting their own "significant" invention to research, build and present to the group.
Primary Driving/Throughline Concept: Why did humans use the resources in their environment to help them evolve? Why are some countries technologically advanced and some countries are not?
What are the most impactful-improtant-critical inventions that helped humans to evolve into what and where we are today?
Starting with the end in mind - what skills and strategies do we want the students to acquire; understand; learn; practice at the end of this "Project/Mini-Inquiry"?
Example: Refrigeration} ice} unit or box with ice blocks} early refrigeration system} manufacturing of early refrigeration units} How were these powered? Was electricity required? What was required before electricity was invented? What came first - electricity or the refrigeration unit?
The benefits of have all of the students participate in researching the same topic is that they have a model, guide, template for how to move on to the next phase of each group selecting their own "significant" invention to research, build and present to the group.